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WESLEY Mission Brisbane’s Chaplain, Margaret Niethe, showed great bravery last month when she shaved her head for the Leukaemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave appeal. Ms Niethe, her husband Paul, daughter Wendy and grandson Blake all took part in the shave at the Ipswich Riverlink Shopping Centre. Blake has been taking part in the World’s Greatest Shave since he was in ...

WHEN the apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthian church in what we know as 1 Corinthians 12, he speaks to a Christian community struggling with both spiritual and social issues. Writing to those specific pathologies, Paul uses the analogy of the human body to illustrate the nature of the church in a highly accessible way which provides insights that remain ...

ONE hundred and fifty Uniting Church members gathered in Mt Louisa House of Praise in Townsville for worship over the Easter weekend. Congregation minister, Rev Anne Harley, said this year’s Easter Call was a success and attendees were changed, inspired, healed, and more equipped to serve. “We believe God has far more for us in the Uniting Church in North ...

TENS of thousands of people visited Toowoomba over the Easter long weekend to celebrate Easterfest, the largest Christian event and largest drug and alcohol-free festival in Australia. Festival director David Schenk said that after shock floods at Easterfest in 2011, this year the event ran smoothly and was a complete success. "All the challenges that we had with the weather ...

 Have you ever heard of the analogy about porcupines being like family? They need to be close to each other because they need to share the body heat each one generates in order to survive. But if they get too close, it becomes a severely limiting factor because their needles would pierce each other’s skin. The Uniting Church is very ...

CHRISTIAN Television Australia’s Easter special An Innocent Man? will air on the Seven Network at 3pm on Good Friday. The TV drama looks at the Easter story in a modern-day context. Produced by Melbourne based production company, Australian Christian Multimedia, An Innocent Man? brings a sense of freshness to the age-old story. The events of the Easter story are retold ...

THE National Day of Thanksgiving will be held on Saturday 26 May this year. The Day is an opportunity for churches and Christian organisations across Australia to connect with people in their local communities who don’t normally go to church. In 2012 the National Day of Thanksgiving will be thanking and honouring those in local government, from elected Councillors, office ...

WHEN Rev Bob Harriman, Mary Burnett Presbytery Minister and former Chaplain for UnitingCare Community (formerly Lifeline), looks at church communities he doesn’t focus on who is there. Mr Harriman is always on the lookout for the people who aren’t there. It is about ensuring our churches are inclusive worship communities where different people feel that they belong. He said inclusive ...

THIS Anzac Day, Dogs NSW pays tribute to those dogs that provided assistance to soldiers during times of war overseas. “Dogs have served in the Australian military going right back to World War 1. They played an important part in the Vietnam War and are still involved in Afghanistan and other current campaigns. Canines in combat provide outstanding help to ...

AT first thought, penguins and presbytery ministers do not appear to have much in common. But, the story of one penguin – anxious to encourage change within his colony – was one of the key themes of the National Presbytery Ministers’ Conference held at Beauty Point, in Tasmania’s north, in February. The story of the penguin related to the seemingly ...